He Is

But he was there,
in the cold grotesque theatre
and was
dead and young, it wasn't him!
No, it certainly wasn't him.

He wasn't closed, coffined,
wreathed, heavy-lidded, cold,
weighted eternally! No!
He is forever in that
flare-up, in life he is!

(Translated from the Czech
by Litt/Little and Tomas Mika)